Playing It Forward
Instruments Land in Young Musicians’ Hands There are three rules in a guitar lesson with Daren Hightower: 1)...
Holiday Gems
There’s a bounty of holiday art activity every year, from the mainstays like A Christmas Carol and The...
Editor’s Remarks: November 2012
The poetry of numbers surfaces this month. World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th...
artiFACTS: November 2012
Theater LaB Houston bids farewell to its Alamo venue on December 2, 2012. Bayou City Concert Musicals will present the 2012 Kim Hupp Award to Gerald Blaise LaBita, founder and producing director of Theater LaB Houston [...]
Cézanne: A Life at Dallas Museum of Art
Alex Danchev in Conversation with Michael Ennis Acclaimed biographer Alex Danchev has created the first comprehensive new assessment...
40th Season of Puppetry Arts at Dallas Children’s Theater
Kathy Burks and Company honor and holiday tradition and launch the 40th season of puppetry arts for the...
Fran Forman at Afterimage Gallery
On November 10, Afterimage Gallery in the Quadrangle begins its first show of the colorful and inventive surreal...
Cultural Warrior: Elizabeth Dunbar
DiverseWorks’s Elizabeth Dunbar It has been a busy year for Elizabeth Dunbar, sale who became executive director at...
Battle Lessons
War on Film at MFAH In conjunction with its exhibit, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents War on Film, a series of five films chronicling armed conflict in the 20th century. Given the extensive catalog [...]
“Not What They Saw in the Movies”
MFAH’s WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Surveys Combat, from Advent to Aftermath Standing over a model of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Upper Brown Foundation Gallery, MFAH photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker reaches into one of the dollhouse-sized rooms to pluck out one of hundreds of miniature copies of war-related photographs [...]
Short Story Dances
Karen Stokes on Vine Leaf Dances Choreographer Karen Stokes switches to short form in Vine Leaf Dances, which...
Houston Contemporary Dance Squared
Preview: Hope Stone and Houston Met Present squared dancer No, The Stoners and The Metronics are not emerging indie-rock bands. These handles are how Hope Stone and Houston Metropolitan Dance Company members have been referring to themselves as they merge for their joint performance, squared dancer [...]